Grand Theft Auto IV gets GFW LIVE

Rockstar’s GTA IV PC port is getting injected with LIVE. The company has partenered with Microsoft to add Games for Windows LIVE features to the PC version, likes of expanded multiplayer, DirectX graphics and more. GTA IV is scheduled to hit torrents…err PCs this November.

DirectX 11 Is Official

 

The original rumor was true as Microsoft has officially announced DirectX 11. Details below:

Features include new shader technology that begins to allow developers to position GPUs as more general-purpose parallel processors, rather than being dedicated solely to graphics processing; better multi-threading capabilities; and hardware-based tesselation.

Said newly promoted Microsoft’s Entertainment Business Division CTO Chris Satchell during a Gamefest keynote, “We want to break away from purely having a paradigm of pixels, vertices and shaders.”

DirectX 11 will be backwards compatible with DirectX10/9. Though with the lack of DirectX10 applications/game and the miserable adoption rate (due to consolization), it’ll be interesting to see how well DirectX 11 is received.